Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing.

Folger bibliographic ID: 144983
ESTC number: R2221
Wing number: C6371
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 191863

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

I.C. = John Cotgrave Partly in verse The words "1. Theatre of courtship, ... description of beauty." are bracketed together on title page, as are the words "5. The muses Elizium, ... of England, &c." With an engraved, undated title page, with printer's name given in imprint as "Brookes" and with title "Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus", signed: R. Gaywood fecit The last leaf is blank Engr. title page = A1

Extended title: Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing. : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, several poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 7. Cardinal Richelieu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. 8. Games and sports now used at this day among the gentry of England, &c. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, ... The 2d edition, with many new additions, by I.C
Alternate titles: Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus, Witts interpreter or The new Parnassus, Sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry; in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing

Courtship Letter writing Riddles Medicine Games Gentry

author: Cotgrave, John, active 1655
printmaker: Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680
signer: White, William Augustus, 1843-1927